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' FRED SELL, OF MILWAUKEE, VISGONSIN, ASSIGNR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM IILAESER, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,860, dated J'uly 7, 1885.

Application filed October 14, 1884.

T @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED SELL, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Gars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in cattle-cars, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vert-ical longitudinal section through the center of a cattlecar box iitted with my improved de- Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of part of a car showing` my devices in like position, and Fig. 3 is a like view of the same, showing the trough and hay-rack as raised up when not in use.

`The object of the present invention is to simplify the construction of the device for which Letters Patent No. 296,842 were granted to me jointly with William Klaescr, of

- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 15, 1884, so as to materially reduce the cost of its manufacture, and to also render the same more effective, more promptly and easily manipulated, and less liable to get out of order.

A is the car-body; B, the hayrack, and G represents the water-trough. lIhis latter is suspended in any suitable manner to the endless chains D D, which arc mounted in the top and sides of the car-box on sprocketwheels d d d d', journaled in bearing-boxes c e c e', respectively. The upper wheels, dd. are keyed onto the longitudinal shaft D', the ends of which are journaled in the bearingboxes e e, fitted in the upper ends of the brackets E, fastened in the roof A of the carbox so as to carry the chains D astride, as it were, of the car sides A2, suitable perforations being made for that purpose in the said parts. Either one or both of the said sprocket-wheels may be provided with a pawl-ratehet, di, and a crank-handle, di, by means of which the shaft D may be operated to raise or lower the trough C and the hayrack B. This latter consists of the sliding base-pieces b b, the outer ends of which are vertically perforated to be adapted to slide up or down along the guide-rods F- F, tted in the roof and bottom of the carbox at a slight distance from the inner face of the sides A2.

The inner portions of the base-pieces b are (No model.)

vertically flattened and perforated to receive the lower bar, b', of the hay-rack, bearing freely therein. The upper bar, b2, of the said rack rests against the upper edge o the curved-up lower end of the brackets G G, fitted by bolts g g in the roof A', and ldepending therefrom on a suitable incline toward the car sides.

The operation of my device is substantially the saine as disclosed in the previously-named patent.

The location of .the hoisting and lowering gear has been changed for greater convenience, and the substitution of the endless chains for the screws, besides adding considerable advantage on account of their being adapted to work more rapidly, has materially reduced the cost of the device.

Having thus described lmy invention, what I clai m as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In aeatlleear, the combination of a watertrough suspended on endless chains mounted, substantially as herein described, in the root' and sides of the car-box, mechanism, substantially as described, to raise or lower the same as desired, a folding hay-rack adapted to slide in guide-rods of the car-box, and supportingbrackets depending from the carroof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a cattle-car, the combination of the endless chains D, carrying the water-trough C, with the car-roof A', provided with bearing-brackets E, shafts D', carrying sprocketwheels d d, pawl-ratchet d2, and hand-crank d3, and box sides A2, provided with bearings c e', and sprocket-wheels d d', substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a eattleear, the hay-rack B, having sliding hinge-pieces b b, in'combination with the roof and bottom of car-box having guiderods F F, brackets G, and chains D, provided with hoisting mechanism and carrying the trough C, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Viscousin, in presence of two witnesses.

INitnesses: FRED SELL.

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